Improvement in valves



R. W. PEOK.

Valve.

No. 222,727. Patented Dec. 16; 1879.

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IMPROVEMENT IN VALVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,727, dated December 16, 1879; application filed June 19, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD \V. PECK, of New York city, in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements relating to the Construction of Valves for use in Pumps and in analogous situations; and I do hereby declare the followin g is a full and exact description thereof.

I make a valve which presents two faces, capable of being reversed and used until both faces are worn or injured.

I make the faces of rubber, but peculiarly formed and combined with a strong open-work support or skeleton of metal, which gives it the strength and rigidity desired.

My valve may be conveniently made, is cheap, noiseless, adapted for violent action and high pressure, if required, and is likely to be durable.

I will describe the invention as applied to valves which rise and sink bodily, in the manner known as puppet-valves, guided by a stem in the center; but it will be understood that my invention is capable of being applied to valves otherwise guided, or even to valves of a different class, as hinged valves.

I employ a skeleton, A, of brass or other suitable strong metal.

I have designated certain parts by additional marks, A A A A is a hub, having a little less thickness than the valve is to finally attain. A is a rim of corresponding thickness. A are cross-bars, leaving considerable open spaces between them. All the parts, A A A are formed together in one strong casting.

I combine with this skeleton A A A a mass of vulcanized india-rubber, adapted to There are known in steam-engineering and pump-work two grades of relatively soft rubber. The hardest, although differing very widely from the hard material used for buttons, pen-handles, and analogous articles, is

technically known among engineers as hard rubber. I prefer that grade of rubber for my valve but I believe the softer variety, known as soft rubber, may serve with some success.

It is important that. the rubber B 13 pro trude its faces beyond the plane of the parts A A This allows the valve to strike on a plane surface and the shock to be entirely received on the rubber; but the valve may be used with some success with the rubber flush with the metal, or even a little sunk below the edges, by giving the seat a corresponding form, as indicated in Fig. 2, where O represents the seat.

The valve is shown as guided by a pin, D, which is secured firmly in the center A in the casting by the aid of screw-threads, as

represented.

Modifications maybe made. The cross-bars may form diamonds instead of squares. The spaces in the casting may be considerably elongated.

than is here shown. Themetal may be tinned They may be made coarser or finer I claim as my invention- In testimonv whereof I have hereunto set The reversible frame or skeleton A, 00111- my hand this 18th day of J one, 1879, in the posed of the. hub A, periphery A and conpresence of two subscribing witnesses. necting-bars A combined with the rubber filling B 13 B as shown B projecting beyond I RICHARD \V. PEOK. one face of the skeleton A, B extending beyond the opposite face, and B filling the Witnesses: spaces between the bars A and directly con- ED. W CHAMBERLAIN, necting the faces B and 13 as and for the pur- CHARLES C. STETSON. poses set forth. I 

